The news and herald. (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1877-1900, 1887-12-15
NEWS TN. BRIEF.

from their nests and covers and
matches the eggs himself.
"A lovely woman in Austin, In por.
feet health, and possessing lovely
| tresses, lost all of her hair In one night.
Burglars found it on the wash stand. !.
t.@ ,--As far back as 1909 an English
writer remarked: cit Is Unreasonable
and unwhofesome In all months that
have not an S. in their names to eat
an oyster. '' ~ 4
--Gfant Johnson. u colored resident
or West Chester, has been living three
months with q bullet In his brain. He
is totally paralyzed, being unablo to
move q muscle or talk.
Some cows that were in field
that She was crossing, at Sag IIarhor.
II. J., recently. made movement to.
ward Mrs, Rogers, who became 80
frightened that she dropped dead.
The fibre derived from the inner
bark of young mulberry shoots is said
70 yield a fabric much finer and
stronger than cotton, and which, when
woven, very much resembles silk.
| FISHERMEN at hoseDurg, on the
slilslaW river. in Oregon, caught 10000
| salmon IN one night recently. notwlth.
standing the cry being raised that the
fish are rapidly leaving Oregon waters.
An. Orange (N. J.) shoemaker
found diamonds valued at $4,000 in a
PAIR OF shoes sent him for repairs. The
stones had been put in the shoes for
safety ny the owner and been forgotten,
The German town. having the
greatest number Of SALOONS, relatively,
Is Glessen, one to every so inhab-
tants, and Schwerin has the smallest
number, one to every 4T8 inhabitants,
The dog Of George Marion, OF
Rensselar, Ind, began barking at a
hole In the ground. Marion dug down
and Killed ll3 blue racers and 81 bull
snakes. The dog ia still in the hole
hunting for the lie. .sH
The floating island on Lake Der,
wentwater, England, has again made
Its appearance, after complete aubmer-
sion for nearly three years. The cause
OF the phenomenon Is said never to
have Geen satisfactorily explained.
lit Is computed that the death rate
Of the world Is sixty.seYen a minure,
and the birth rate seventy a minute,
and this seemingly light percentage Of
gain 1s sufficient to give a not increase
OF population each year OF almost
l,2O0. 900 souls.
"A resident Of Sumter. Ca, Waa
driving a mule through the streets
when the breeze caught up q big piece
OF blue }paper lying In the guttes and
whirledl 1t directly before, the animal's
race. The mule, it Is reported, sta rted
BACK IN terror, trembled Violently,
and then fell over dead. 5;ff (,
AT Ieast ~, 600 preserved hummine
Dlrds are now embraced in the collec-
tlon In tho British museum, The
hnest collection on this side Of the at.
lanttc, containing about 1900 specI-
mensa mas been presented by Mr. D.
g, Eliot to the American Museum of
n atural History Of New York.
AT Acosta a Roman metal non oas
Oeen found. 1t is q bronze pen slit IN
exactly the same fashion as the present
steel pen. The Dutch invented =
metal pen in 1717, but it was not unt,i
many years later that the hand-screw
press, which made the first chean
steel pen, came into use.
-Thakore sahlb spent $3.50 Ono
during his short visit to America,
some or the money went for jewelry
ana some for railroad supplies for
indla. For Christine Nilsson he
GoughC ran set with diamonds ana
rnbies. and for Queen Victoria $4,000
silver. asI..
1t has been ascrtained by an oh.
serving person that nocks of po,ltrv
which have guinea fowls among them
are never interfered with hy chicken
tnieves. The guinea Is always on tha
alert, and tho least disturbance viii
cause IL to mako very loud outcry
we'll known to farmers. This fowl
should be found on every farm and on
every hen rOost. ri
The Increase in tho wages of work
ing people in the United States waa
more rapid during the decade ENDING 1p
looo than it was during the next de-
cade or the last one. The rate OF in,
crease In England for the past forty
years mas been more rapid than the
increase In the United States
"A ragpicker, iii London. who re-,
Gently found purse with a soverelgn
IN IL on the street, ,straightWay repaired
WIN MS wife, to purchase articles OF
Whlch they were In pressing need. They
are now In jail, an astuta magistrate
having decided that they should have
reported their good luck to the police.
The following testimonial from
lady has been left at. this Office, for
sale, by a dealer in patent medicines.
Dear Doctor--I Will say that. While
suffering from severe backache
took my purse IN my hand and Went
out to buy one Of your plasters. met
street thief on the corner ana was
relieved at once. You can use this
for what it is worth. - i3,rl;y1to@,
Free I'rcss. ''sVSs
,s---Elizabeth Patterson Bonapafte wac
born in Baltimore IN 1856. She waa
the daughter Of a wealthy merchant
and was married to Jerome I3ona.
parte In 1903. Napoleon commanded
jerome to forsake his wife. but Inc
young man would not do this untn
1907, when the French council Of Stale
annulled the marriage and Nnpoleon
granted her q large pension. She had
one. son, who was educated abroad, She
died April q, 1879, ,sleaying a large for,
tune to her grandsoDs
IAN cnterptislng man in Chicago
proposed to procure tin boxes lust
large enough to hold an ordinary
sand Wich, pieco Of pie, a task OF coffee
and Chinese napkin. lie will Gll q